Page 18. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2016 Boat And Ship Yard News The Mussel Ridge 48 and SINBAD at Front Street Shipyard. Continued from Page 1.


is easier to give you a list of what was not. J. B. Turner, President of Front Street, said, “We didn’t change the hull form in any way. We added plates where they were thin, about 1200 square feet. We did literally every part of the boat in some way: electrical, mechan- ical, joinery and systems. We did generators, new water makers, new freshwater system, new black water system, new graywater system, new air-conditioning chiller units, all new air handlers throughout the boat, and a lot of plumbing work associated with the engine room. We kept the main engines; rebuilt the owners cabin in what was the dining room; the original pantry became the owner’s head; we built a new stew galley; we took the original owner’s cabin aft, cut it in half and made two queen cabins with two separate heads; we put in a Jacuzzi up on the top deck, which took some structural engineering and fabrication work to make the deck strong enough to handle that; we put a new bar and grill area in; we put in a new bar/pantry for the top deck; sandblasted


the bottom and painted the entire boat, top to bottom. We also did all new mechanical, electrical and network systems, new AV equipment; and some new electronics. She is potentially coming back in a year or two when they fi gure out what they want to do for phase 2.” The middle of November BERILDA


left Cape Charles and headed for Fort Lauderdale. She will then head out to the Bahamas for Thanksgiving for her owners. J. B. added, “They are very happy with the boat and super excited about getting on with a new adventure as this is their fi rst boat and their fi rst boating experience.” Even before BERILDA left the yard


the 80-foot steel SINBAD arrived. She was built by A. Eidsvik in Norway in 1962 as an ice-classed commercial fi shing vessel used in the North Seas. Once in the shop they cut a hole in the side of her and are unloading the engine room. “This makes it super effi cient in getting everything out of the boat,” explained J. B. “We are removing the generators, a lot of piping, tanks and redundant systems all the way down to like


seacocks, which have not been inspected for over 40 years. We just had her audio gauged and there’s a bunch of plate work that has to be done. The dry stack exhaust has to be replaced. We have already sandblasted the bottom and primed that and we will be doing an entire paint job on the boat. I am sure we will get to deal with corrosion. We know already that we have to cut the cap-rails off and replace those. We need to replace the electrical systems in the engine room and the electronics. There is not a ton of joinery on the inside, but a lot of access to tanks that have not been looked at since 1962 need inspecting. We should be about a year, maybe less.” In the same bay, is AURORA, the 80


foot Burger, that they generally do quite a bit of work on every year. This year she is in to have her brightwork redone, a lot of paintwork, which will include sandblasting the bulwarks aft and fi nal paint. They also may do a large main salon refi t. In front of AURORA is a Mussel Ridge


48, which is being fi nished off for a fi sher- man on the West Coast. She will be done later this winter and then shipped across the country to her homeport. On the other side of the building they


have ATLANTIDE. She was built at Philip & Sons of Dartmouth, England in 1930 for Sir William Burton KBE as CALETA. She is 122 feet 4 inches in length with a 17 foot 10 inch beam and displaces 180 tons. She is powered with twin diesel engines and has a cruising speed of 10 knots. She served in the Royal Navy during World War II and assisted in the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk, France in 1940. Following the war she had several owners and several name changes. She is back this winter, to have some bright and paint work done. They also have some corrosion work, which is common on any steel or aluminum boat. Next to ATLANTIDE is a sportfi sher-


men, which will probably have a long list of things to do after running back and forth to the fi shing grounds all summer. J. B. added, “We are also working on a new 48 foot catamaran style infused hull


for Brevilla Boat Company. We have put the deck on and have done some testing. Right now we are working on tweaking the hull so we can get her up to the speeds that the owner was hoping for. That will take another two or three weeks to do. We have to get the designer up here to go through that process.” They are hoping to see her run at a top


speed of 55 mph with twin 350-hp outboards and a fuel savings of 30 to 40 percent over a similar monohull. J. B. said, “They are more in tune with engineering then naval architecture. It is an interesting concept. They seem to run well, smooth through the water and goes through a wake really well. We just have to work on the details of the tunnel because it is a very complex bottom shape that hasn’t been done before.” The paint shop will be busy all winter.


They just had a 40 foot custom boat come out of the paint bay and they put in a Swan 48 for full paint, hull and deck. There are a number of others just waiting their turn to get into the paint shop. As for the carbon ferries, Front Street


is just waiting for a signature on the bottom line. J. B. added, “It is hard to say, Hornblow- er has the contract with New York City and it is one particular run they are looking for which is the Rockaway run. They have got to make a decision pretty quick because it has to be ready in 2018. They are trying to decide cost versus payback. We have proven to them through math the payback on fuel savings and maintenance. The maintenance, you don’t have the corrosion work with carbon. New York aside, Hornblower is very interested in these ferries, because they realize carbon ferries, being lighter, and all these boats on the West Coast are switching to hybrid power, which means they have to be light and with carbon they are 40% lighter.”


While they wait to see whether an order


comes in for a carbon ferry, they still are trying to move forward in a new building, which will go up where the parking lot is presently. They are hoping to start this building in the Spring.


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